While many of you have enjoyed several verses from the pen of John Terrell on the Outback Family History Blog, many of you will also be familiar with his books on the sporting history of the Goldfields. He recently sent me the following story, which I’m sure you will find most interesting. You may think, […]
The people of the Goldfields
The Goldfields of Western Australia was and still is made up of many people, from poets to politicians, from saints and sinners and everything in between. I hope to tell you the stories of some of these people either famous or infamous or just the ordinary folks. Sometime the most ordinary people do the most extraordinry things
The Gate of Golden Hope –
Western Mail Perth 25 December 1928, page 76 Micky O’Driscoll, or “Micky the Priest”, as he was known, humped his bluey disconsolately through the scrubby jam-tree thicket. Behind him, some ten miles lay the town . . . . Hell’s blessings on it! . . . where he had squandered two months’ wages in as […]
Over the Plates: The Unlucky Gamble
Dolly Pot – Western Mail, Perth – 21 November 1940, page 8 OVER THE PLATES An Unlucky Gamble Early in the “Roaring Nineties,” Billy Collins, Ned Campion, Barney, and I were camped at a pool ten miles west of Cue. At the south end of the pool, flies were making short work of a horse […]
Navvies, Newlyweds and the Goldfields Dream
The Sun. Kalgoorlie 8 December 1901 North Country Notes by Pharisee Since the advent of the navvies with the Malcolm-Leonora railway construction, the Malcolm hash houses have received a severe shaking up. Formerly it was only possible to get a square feed if – like Oliver Twist — a man possessed the grit to ask […]
The Crown for the Queen of the Murchison –
Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgo0 Goldfields Chronicle – 26 March 1897 Parer’s Crown Hotel, Cue, is one of the most popular resorts for visitors and residents of the town in which to make their home while in the fields. The name of Parer Bros is well known to everyone who has ever been in […]
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